DRACULA
MOVIE REVIEW

		Review by E.C. McMullen Jr.
Christopher Lee ACTOR PAGE DRACULA aka HORROR OF DRACULA - 1958 USA Release: Feb. 6, 1969 Hammer Films / Warner Bros. Rating: USA: G

THE ALL NEW DRACULA

As far as Hammer films was concerned, Universal Pictures ruled the roost of classic Horror long enough. It was great when it all began with the Laemelle family in charge, but then the rats crawled out of their banks, pulled their scurrilous shit to own UP, and Universal suffered diminishing returns (and repeated sale transfers to other increasingly incompetent entities who thought they had the Universal Pictures forumla figured out - and were wrong).

Once it reached the point where UP seemed embarrassed of their Horror legacy that put them on the map, Hammer films walked up to gently suggest that they throw a blanket over their knees and let some young Brit upstarts show them how its done. UP of the 1950s, fully unaware of what they had, happily agreed (well, at least their lawyers were cautious).

That's when Hammer showed them how Horror is done.

In DRACULA (1958), little remains of the Universal Pictures set design and nothing remains of the Dracula created by Bela Lugosi (which, ironically, isolated Bela's Dracula making him iconic and legendary). Hammer stumbled with their version of FRANKENSTEIN, but delivered thanks to actors Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing unleashed.

Jimmy Sangster is one of my all time favorite screenwriters, but his script for DRACULA, full of unnecessary voice over narration, is the weakest part of this movie (quite an UN-Sangster thing to do which makes me think it was demanded of him).

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This review copyright 2010 E.C.McMullen Jr.

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